Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Fast Forwarding the Future
Applications are now open for the B.F.A. in Emerging Media Arts for fall 2021 enrollment.
Prepare for careers in
filmmaking, game design, special effects, app development, theme park experiences, virtual reality, and animation.
Learn creative coding, sonic and sensory media, wearable technology and writing across media. Build your own company and start your own career in one of the pre-eminent emerging media arts programs in the country.
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Nebraska offers you one of the best value college experiences out there. Among the lowest tuition in the Big Ten; 65% of first-year students receive institutional grants or scholarships.*
*National Center for Education Statistics
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We are looking for self-motivated, young people from all over the world who are creative builders—who write novels and short stories, who make movies, who build apps, who create video games, who write comic books and graphic novels, who build 3-D models, who create puzzles and who contribute to open-source software projects, and more. Our unique program creates “X-shaped graduates” who understand design, story, entrepreneurship and code. These core competencies give them ownership over their future and allow them to thrive in a changing, diverse, global environment.
Carson Center’s Twomey receives NSF grant for Augmented Reality research
Lincoln, Neb.—Robert Twomey, assistant professor of emerging media arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as co-principal investigator on a $750,000 p
Carson Center, Carson School partner with Seed&Spark Crowdfunding
Lincoln, Neb.—The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film have a new partnership with Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding platform that delivers education, tools and resources tha
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For more information or questions about the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts:
Megan McMasters, Director of Operations
megan.mcmasters@unl.edu